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2022-12-29 Guided Mudita Meditation 42:49
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House New Year Dana Retreat

2022-12-29 Taking your seat, relaxing & allowing 44:47
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery New Year Retreat 2022 - 2023

2022-12-22 Choiceless Awareness and Big Sky Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 34:53
Devon Hase
A short overview of Satipatthana practice including choiceless awareness, followed by a guided big mind meditation with singing bowls.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2022-12-21 Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 32:03
Devon Hase
Short talk explaining the four Brahma Viharas with images and similes, followed by a guided compassion practice for a suffering being and oneself.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2022-12-20 Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:58
Devon Hase
Short talk and guided meditation, including RAINN
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2022-12-18 Nivaranas Dharmette (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:37
Devon Hase
Short talk and guided meditation on working with the hindrances (nivaranas)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2022-12-16 Acting for justice and the bhikkhunī ordinations of 2009 1:33:40
Bhante Sujato
Guided meditation on muditā. Dhamma talk on how to act for justice, with reference to senior male monastics' roles in bhikkhunī ordinations of 2009.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-12-14 Lightly Guided Meditation: Practicing with Views and Beliefs 35:59
Donald Rothberg
After some foundational mindfulness instructions, there's an invitation to track for views and beliefs when they appear, whether just for a few moments or in a more sustained way, linked perhaps with reviewing an interaction with someone or something that happened. Near the end, there's guidance to bring to mind a situation in the last few days in which there was a strong sense of a view taken and then explore the experience of holding a strong view.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-12-12 Guided Metta Meditation 32:05
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Meditation Day - All Kinds of Kindness

2022-12-12 Lightly Guided Meditation, and Dharma Talk - Relating Well 38:32
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Meditation Day - All Kinds of Kindness

2022-12-09 Papañca (proliferation) 1:33:09
Bhante Sujato
Guided meditation of awareness of the messy mind, being aware of consciousness brings fearlessness. Dhamma talk on papañca with reference to The Honey Cake sutta MN18 and Concept and Reality by Ven. Ñāṇananda's analysis of MN18 16.1. How venerable Kaccāna presents a sequence where the self slowly emerges, creating the person who then is beset by papañca; nouns turn to verbs.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-12-09 Guided Meditation - Death Contemplation (Ajahn Jivako) 26:59
Ajahn Amaro
Led by Ajahn Jivako
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-09 Q&A with Ajahn Jivako 22:19
Ajahn Amaro
00:34 Q1 Can you give some examples of non-formal practice through the day. 06:23 Q2 What is helpful in practicing walking meditation? 11:40 Q3 Why do we practice walking when we have sitting meditation? 12:46 Q4 Why is it that the object of meditation has to be something of the body? Could it be a rock for example? 13:37 Q5 When I meditate I hear a loud inner sound, the breathing, heat beat and blood pumping and body movements. It’s difficult to concentrate on any one thing. 16:03 Q6 Is stream entry a deeper flow state or something completely different? 16:23 Q7 How can we differentiate between skilful and unskilful doubt. 19:00 Q8 In the guided meditation you led us inside where we were resting somewhere. Are there any creative techniques to access that? 20:21 Q9 When you asked us to look for the person /that who is aware. Commonly this is supposed to be usually in the head right? Can it be outside the body and are there ways to access that? 21:36 Q10 You mentioned you were from New Hampshire. Is that attached to Ajahn Amaro?
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-09 Guided Meditation with Ajahn Jivako 26:59
Ajahn Amaro
Led by Ajahn Jiviko
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-08 Guided Meditation 29:46
Ajahn Amaro
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-07 Guided Meditation - Sound of Silence 26:25
Ajahn Amaro
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-07 Guided Meditation - Who am I? 30:34
Ajahn Amaro
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-07 Guided Meditation - Equanimity 42:03
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness

2022-12-05 Guided Meditation Instructions 26:18
Ajahn Amaro
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-05 Guided Meditation - Appreciative and Altruistic Joy 43:28
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness

2022-12-04 Guided Meditation on the Breath 41:49
Bernat Font
Gaia House The Path of Mindfulness

2022-12-02 Even though I am afflicted in body, my mind will be unafflicted: SN22.1 1:22:15
Bhante Sujato
Guided meditation on sīlanussati. Dhamma Talk: SN22.1 Nakula's Father. Discussion of Sāriputta's analysis of what is meant by the Buddha's statement on coping with old age: “Even though I am afflicted in body, my mind will be unafflicted.”
Lokanta Vihara

2022-11-25 The ghost is not in the machine 1:29:57
Bhante Sujato
Guided mettā meditation. Dhamma Talk: The ghost is not in the machine. The question of robots and the soul. The Buddha's views on the soul versus others at the time e.g. Brahmanism's atta and Jainism's jiva. Understanding things through relations and processes rather than substances or a soul. Self-awareness and purpose in robots, AI.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-11-23 Meditation: Touching Peace 21:56
Tara Brach
This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax through the body. Then we practice resting in relaxed awareness, allowing waves of thoughts, feelings and sensations to come and go.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-11-23 A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart 51:46
Tara Brach
Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing our mutual belonging and offering our care. When we are awake and whole, breathing in and out happens naturally. But these beautiful expressions of our heart become blocked when we are dominated by the fear and grasping of our survival brain. This talk explores how we can facilitate the evolution of consciousness with the deliberate cultivation of generosity, and ends with a guided meditation on gratitude and generosity.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-11-23 Guided Meditation: Taking Everything As An Opportunity for Learning 37:28
Donald Rothberg
After foundational mindfulness instructions, there is guidance, just after the core instructions and then briefly twice more during the session, on approaching the silent sitting in the spirit of our talk theme, taking every moment as practice, as an opportunity for learning.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-11-22 Advice to the Dying: Don’t Cling to Anything 22:04
Shaila Catherine
This guided meditation offers a comprehensive training in non-attachment and letting go. The instructions list various objects and perceptions that one might be attached to, and recommend that we train ourselves to not cling to each item. It follows the advice that Venerable Sariputta offered to the lay disciple Anathapindika on his deathbed. It is essentially a reading of the discourse of Advice to Anathapindika (Middle Length Discourses 143) with some comments.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2022-11-19 Guided meditation developing the Jhana qualities 21:56
Christina Feldman
London Insight Meditation Christina Feldman – Cultivating a Well Trained Heart: the Path of Samadhi

2022-11-18 Meditation on thoughts stopping, Dhamma talk on Right Speech 1:35:19
Bhante Sujato
Guided breath meditation on the ease of thoughts stopping. Dhamma talk on Right Speech in the context of Twitter collapsing, the rise and fall of authoritarians and fraudsters, current large positive changes taking place. How might we use social media with Right Speech.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-11-16 Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart 23:33
Tara Brach
In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls forth this loving presence by opening to the heart and spirit of whatever being in our life we most experience as calm, wise and compassionate. How do we find that inner place of calm in the midst of the storm?
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-11-13 Self Forgiveness Meditation 9:14
Amita Schmidt
This is a short, guided meditation exercise in extending forgiveness to a part of yourself. The meditation is designed for healing, and you can practice it as many times as needed, for different ages/parts of yourself.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2022-11-12 Guided meditation 32:00
Yanai Postelnik
London Insight Meditation Yanai Postelnik – Love in the time of crisis

2022-11-11 Guided meditation: metta the neutral and difficult person 46:36
Kim Allen
After establishing metta with an "easy being" we can train the heart to offer goodwill to a person we do not know, and also to one who is challenging for us. Our hearts grow stronger as metta deepens and expands.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2022-11-10 Guided Meditation 41:03
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Cultivating Goodness, Exploring Fabrication

2022-11-08 Guided metta/loving-kindness meditation 46:59
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 1-15 2022

2022-11-08 Introduction and Guided Meditation 23:05
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House The Five Daily Reflections (online)

2022-11-03 Guided Meditation 41:57
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Cultivating Goodness, Exploring Fabrication

2022-11-03 Guided loving-kindness meditation 44:32
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the importance of kindness for ourselves. This is followed by a guided meditation that includes receiving kindness, kindness for a benefactor, and kindness for oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2022-10-30 Guided Meditation on the Selfless Nature of Experience 25:25
Sari Markkanen
Gaia House Exploring Emotions and Mindstates

2022-10-30 Guided Meditation Exploring Fabrication 44:44
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Emotions and Mindstates

2022-10-29 Guided Meditation on Opening from Contraction 26:32
Sari Markkanen
Gaia House Exploring Emotions and Mindstates

2022-10-29 Guided Meditation 14:45
Sari Markkanen
Gaia House Exploring Emotions and Mindstates

2022-10-29 Brief Reflections on the Practice, and Guided Meditation 35:15
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Emotions and Mindstates

2022-10-27 Intro To Brahmavihara Practice 44:09
Jill Shepherd
A short explanation of how Brahmavihara practice supports insight and vice versa and then a guided meditation easing into cultivating kindness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2022-10-27 Guided Meditation 39:19
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Cultivating Goodness, Exploring Fabrication

2022-10-27 Guided Meditation 19:43
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Cultivating Goodness, Exploring Fabrication

2022-10-24 Guided meditation 7:36
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center ‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is nothing you need push away’: A path to the peace of letting go

2022-10-21 Guided metta/kindness meditation. 45:06
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2022

2022-10-21 Guided mettā meditation, Dhamma talk on dependent origination 1:21:42
Bhante Sujato
Guided mettā meditation to develop positive emotions, directed towards self and all beings. Dhamma talk on dependent origination in simple terms. Dependent origination answers the question: How does rebirth happen without a soul? We are neither completely fixed or completely fluid in how we are - we are conditioned; a continuity that connects past, present, and future. The Buddha’s great insight was that everything is conditioned. Daily life, high states of meditation, rebirth, and all kinds of experiences all follow the same processes. Ignorance and craving are the drivers of these processes.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-10-20 Guided Meditation 32:53
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Cultivating Goodness, Exploring Fabrication

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